[Lab] gear thoughts

[Darcy Whyte]

Ah yes of course, prior art! I usually look at that but for some reason I
didn't think of it. Then of course there's meccano...

Thanks I'll have a look at the lego gears...



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On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 2:54 PM, Justin Slootsky <justin at slootsky.org>
wrote:

> Look into the relative sizes of the Lego Technic gears.  I'm sure they've
> already done a lot of the consideration of what works well.
>
> If I remember correctly, they have small, medium, large, huge.    medium +
> medium is the same overall size as small+large
>
> I'm also sure that the uber lego enthusiasts have better names for them
> than small, medium, large, huge
>
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> *From: *"Darcy Whyte" <darcy at inventorartist.com>
> *To: *"lab" <lab at artengine.ca>
> *Sent: *Tuesday, September 16, 2014 2:51:01 PM
> *Subject: *Re: [Lab] gear thoughts
>
>
> In retrospect the two size version may not be all that exciting. The
> possibilities are pretty limited.
> http://inventorartist.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Screenshot-2014-09-16-14.41.02-1000.jpg
>
> Any thoughts?
>
>
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> On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 1:55 PM, Darcy Whyte <darcy at inventorartist.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I'm making a gear toy for a young child and wanted there to be lots of
>> different gear sizes.
>>
>> It's easy to make two gear sizes that fit two ways. That will be good for
>> this version of the toy. But for further versions (the six year old version
>> for instance), I want to have examples of gear/pinion coupled together and
>> more sizes. Any ideas?
>>
>> http://inventorartist.com/gear-toy/
>>
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